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Mayor's Book Club Author Event: Osama Alomar & Wendy Pearlman

Mayor's Book Club authors Osama Alomar and Wendy Pearlman visit Austin to discuss their books, THE TEETH OF THE COMB and WE CROSSED A BRIDGE AND IT TREMBLED. Rachel Green, a lecturer in UT's Middle Eastern Studies Department, will moderate a conversation with both writers, who will also read from their work. The audience will be invited to ask questions, and the event will end with a book signing. Copies of both books will be available for purchase from BookPeople.
Osama Alomar's THE TEETH OF THE COMB is a collection of very short stories that read like clever, poignant allegories. They describe both the subtlety and blunt brutally of repression and human foible. Alomar immigrated from the Syria to the US in 2008.
Wendy Perlman's WE CROSSED A BRIDGE AND IT TREMBLED is a collection of stories told by more than 300 Syrian refugees who fled their country during different phases of oppression, civil war, and insurgency. Pearlman gathered these stories through interviews and presents them as they were told to her. This is a powerful history of Syria envisioned through the individual stories of its people.